If there is one thing I can’t stand it’s a friend with an opinion and an audience. My longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah White, whom I both loved and trusted, has too much of both.
Preachers are really just politicians with a smaller electorate. But turn on the video cameras and you’d think they were preaching to the whole wide world. Pastor Wright said some things he should not have said. Sacramental wine before a sermon will do that to a man of the cloth.
What makes this sad event even more sad is that Pastor Wright is retiring. Instead of going out on a high note as a beloved preacher, and personal friend of the next President of the United States, he goes out on a limb, it breaks, and he crashes into the harsh light of reality, right in the middle of my presidential campaign.
I married Michelle in his church. My daughters were baptized in his church. Now I have to reject and repudiate and vehemently disagree and strongly condemn what he said.
Let this be a warning to all preachers with an opinion and a pulpit. Drink the wine after the sermon.
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